Reply #59: Ironicly

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

My father was a pro-choice and pro-gay conservative republican who doesn't think Regan is the second coming of Christ) so I know what you mean, FunkmeisterJohn. A lot of it has to do with who you were exposed to. If the only conservatives you were exposed to were Ann Coulter and Pat Robertson, then you'd have a more unfavorable idea about them.
As for the recruitment of young, white males, I think part of it is that straight, clean-cut WASP males aren't the ones who only count as Humans any more and they're scared. People have seen what racism, hate, and intollerance has done and want to make life better. I remember there was a counter-protest for the war at my college with the college Rebuplicans (the kind that think Regan is the coolest thing on wheels) and the only ones there were White males with shaved, stubblely hair. No offence to people with that kind of do, but it look like an Ayran rally to me.
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Yaoi Huntress Earth